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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7330868 | Data input apparatus and method A command for incrementing a numeric value is inputted by pressing a “2” key. A command for decrementing the numeric value is inputted by depressing an “8” key. At least one of a process for incrementing the numeric value by the amount of increment according... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7303188 | Document separator A document separator for use in a document processing machine. The document separator has a flexible loop of material adjacent to a document transport mechanism so that it holds one or more documents back from being transported along a transport path while allowing ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7232125 | Device for collating laminar workpieces A device for the assembly of brochures from folded sheets includes a continuous conveyor which defines a direction of conveyance, feeders which deliver the folded sheets to the continuous conveyor, and controls for controlling the operation of the feeders and the co... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7222844 | Hopper loader with lateral deblocking The invention relates to a signature hopper loader and method for feeding signatures to a hopper on a binding line. The hopper loader includes a conveyor and a deblocker that work together to feed signatures to the hopper. The deblocker is preferably positioned adja... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7182331 | Input unit of a letter sorting system and method for loading the input unit The present invention relates to an input unit of a letter sorting system which comprises separable first and second conveyor lines. The first line is positioned proximate to an isolating device which processes letters. The first line comprises a conveyor surface an... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7150383 | Storable transfer conveyor system A storable transfer conveyor system for moving bundles from an upstream conveyor to a downstream conveyor utilizing a storable transfer conveyor which is movable from a first operative position, wherein the bundles are transferred to the downstream conveyor, to a se... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7011302 | Vertical pocket feeder Vertical pocket feeder signature handling equipment which supplies signatures in an on-edge orientation one at a time to bindery equipment. The vertical pocket feeder particularly cooperates with a hopper loader apparatus which transfers and separates individual sig... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6375182 | Feeding machine A feeding machine for feeding envelopes into a station for further individual handling. A stack of envelopes is held in a downwardly inclined feed channel. The stack of envelopes is transformed into a layered stream by an upward inclined discharge channel... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6213463 | Conveying apparatus for flexible, flat articles arising in an imbricated formation The conveying apparatus has a transport belt (10) which is intended to feed flexible, flat articles (12) arising in imbricated formation (S), resting freely, to a conveyor (14). The transport belt (10) is led around a deflection drum (16) and, together wi... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6199858 | Office printing apparatus with shingling of sheets in a duplex loop Apparatus for stacking sheets comprises a duplex tray for holding a sheet in a temporary storage position. A dispense nip is formed at an outlet of the tray. Rollers feed a sheet from the temporary storage position by a predetermined distance through the ... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6182960 | Apparatus for processing flexible, sheet-like products The apparatus for processing flexible, sheet-like products (14) has a feed conveyor (12) which is intended for feeding the products (14) to an intermediate conveyor (18). The latter has pivotably controlled grippers (22) arranged one behind the other and ... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6068253 | Adjustable sheet separating device A leading edge of a leading blank in a series of overlapping envelope blanks is fed at a preselected speed into contact with a rotatably mounted backing roller. The backing roller is mounted in a frame and is selectively adjustable between a first positio... | 05/30/2000 |
| 6016747 | Printing press coupler accumulator A sheet accumulator for advancing successive sheets between first and second color printing presses comprising an accumulator sheet conveyor for advancing sheets from one press to the other press, a sheet lifter at the conveyor to lift a first sheet and t... | 01/25/2000 |
| 5947463 | Method and apparatus of storing sheet-like products on rolls A method for storing sheet-like products comprising the steps of providing a continuous stream of products, winding up a first and a further section of the products to form a first and a further roll, respectively, and unwinding the products from the firs... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5664770 | Apparatus for delivering printed products to a further-processing location Folded printed products are conveyed in a first imbricated formation up to a stop by a first conveying device. In the first imbricated formation each printed product rests on the following printed product with its leading bottom edge formed by its folded ... | 09/09/1997 |
| 5636833 | Apparatus for the underlap imbricated feeding of sheet-like printing substates to a printing machine and method An apparatus and method for feeding a stream of underlap-imbricated sheet-like printing substrates to printing machine, the apparatus comprising a conveying table for conveying the stream in a conveying direction toward the printing, a source of compresse... | 06/10/1997 |
| 5465825 | Mail flow compensating device A mail flow compensating device which is a straight horizontal conveyor belt and is supplied with a stream of overlapping flat mail items. The flow compensating device is made of a stop wall sloping in relation to the belt and presenting a bottom end port... | 11/14/1995 |
| 5421571 | Apparatus for the separate supply of film bags to a filing machine Apparatus for the separate supply of film bags to a filling machine, with a belt conveyor receiving the film bags as an oblique, fanned out stack. A drive acts on the belt conveyor. A separating wheel is positioned adjacent to the delivery section of the ... | 06/06/1995 |
| 5399222 | Process and apparatus for the processing of printing products arriving in an imbricated formation A belt conveyor leads past a processing station. Printing products lie on the conveyor belt in an imbricated formation, each printing product lying on the preceding one with edges to of the printing products running at an angle to the conveying direction ... | 03/21/1995 |
| 5356129 | Press feeding apparatus A conveying mechanism for a press having sucker fingers which lift horizontally positioned items. The mechanism having two conveying sections for supporting imbricately arranged items, the first conveying section delivering to the second and the second se... | 10/18/1994 |
| 5336041 | Storage and retrieval device and method for imbricated planar articles A device for stacking and destacking a stream of imbricated, substantially planar, flexible units to form or destack a layered stack. The device is a stacker, adapted to receive a stream of units from a source thereof, and a plurality of transfer sheets. ... | 08/09/1994 |
| 5308052 | Device for feeding a stack of flat articles on edge to de-stacker head of an automatic sorting machine and a method of operating this device The present invention concerns a device for feeding a stack of flat articles on edge, especially mail items, to a de-stacker head provided with a support surface, the device comprising a main feed magazine in which the stack is disposed and a plate pushin... | 05/03/1994 |
| 5288067 | Method and apparatus for conveying an imbricated stream of sheets to a sheet processing machine A method and apparatus for adjusting the suction pressure drawn through a conveyor belt which conveys a stream of underlapping sheets to an alignment station where sheets are aligned prior to being fed to a sheet-processing machine. A source of high press... | 02/22/1994 |
| 5282613 | Signature stream feeding apparatus In order to accommodate either a loose lift of signatures or, alternatively, a signature log for the purpose of stream feeding a supply of signatures to a packer box on a binding line in an effective and efficient manner, a signature stream feeding appara... | 02/01/1994 |
| 5165676 | Fabric stack shingler A method and apparatus for disclosed for shingling stacks composed of flexible planar objects, such as fabric workpieces. The stack is placed over an axis connecting two hinged support surfaces which are rotated relative to one another to bend the workpie... | 11/24/1992 |
| 5161792 | Machine for transforming a stack of signatures into a shingled stream A machine for converting a group of marginally registered signatures into a shingled stream which is fed to the hopper of a binding machine includes a main frame and several conveyors located in succession along the frame. The first is a feed conveyor hav... | 11/10/1992 |
| 5152519 | Pivoting separator stone for singulating feeder Apparatus for singulating documents seriatim. The apparatus includes: a frame; a device for feeding documents from an upstream position to a downstream position; a separating roller rotatably mounted in the frame; a lower, take-away roller rotatably mount... | 10/06/1992 |
| 5150891 | Shingle device for use in multi-pass sorting machine A shingling device for use in a mail document sorting apparatus includes a first conveyor belt for receiving a vertical stack of sorted documents. A guide element is oblique to the conveyor belt for shifting the moving vertical stack into a shifted obliqu... | 09/29/1992 |
| 5143225 | Carrier sequenced bar code sorter for documents A multi-pass sorting machine includes a housing or supporting structure which has the configuration of an A-Frame. The A-Frame structure has a slanting front side supporting several individually functional devices and a slanting back side supporting other... | 09/01/1992 |
| 5129643 | Apparatus for stacking pasted battery plates Battery plates from the high speed output conveyor of a pasted plate making machine are deposited onto a lower speed first conveyor in an overlapped fashion to create a shingled stream of plates. As plates drop off of the discharge end of the first convey... | 07/14/1992 |
| 5044499 | Machine and method for packaging folded swabs This process is outstanding in that paper in the form of a roll (B) double the width of the bag (S) to be obtained is used, the unrolled strip is separated into two equal widths (B1) (B2), the two half-widths of paper are independently fed to the point wh... | 09/03/1991 |
| 5039081 | Squaring and aligning assembly for a corrugated sheet unstacking and feeding apparatus A squaring and aligning assembly for the transfer frame of a corrugated sheet stacking and feeding apparatus is mounted within a transverse guide member in the form of an elongated channel. Separate squaring shoes at each side of the machine are selective... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5039078 | Separating and feeding garment parts Apparatus for the seriatim separation and feeding of garment parts from a shingled stack of the parts to a predetermined destination. Comprising the apparatus is a movable hold down mechanism for engaging the trailing edge of the second part in the stack ... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5033729 | Mechanism for the handling and singulating of flat materials The present invention is directed to a mechanism for the handling of and the singulating of a stack or plurality of aligned and substantially flat materials such as for example, sheets of paper, cards, printed flyers, envelopes, checks, business cards, la... | 07/23/1991 |
| 4984677 | Device for transferring objects from a conveyor to a collection device A device for transferring objects, such as filled bags, from a conveyor to a collection device, such as a box, placed below the conveyor comprises two conveyor belts (1, 2) placed adjacent to each other. In the conveying position, the top parts of said co... | 01/15/1991 |
| 4973039 | Device for retarding sheet stacks In a conveyor system, a retarder device (1) with a braking gap (40) for the passage of sheet stacks (4) collated with an overlap and regulated by a controller (35) via an actuator (33), the width of the braking gap (40) being positively adjusted, with the... | 11/27/1990 |
| 4928946 | Vertical feed mechanism for documents An improved document feed mechanism for feeding documents in a vertical direction through at least two stations including a device for shingling the documents in at least one station by having successive ones of the documents overlap one another to thereb... | 05/29/1990 |
| 4911421 | Newspaper handling and collating method and apparatus Each interfaced loader and metering hopper combination of a newspaper assembling system includes improvements for producing ridges in the newspapers at various stages where separation of the newspapers from one another is required. The ridges stiffen the ... | 03/27/1990 |
| 4905981 | Apparatus for changing the position of printed products arranged in an imbricated formation The apparatus for changing the position of printed products arranged in an imbricated formation comprises two band conveyors arranged in tandem as viewed in the conveying direction, and a position-change device arranged in the end region of the conveying-... | 03/06/1990 |
| 4903600 | Product collator imbricator and printer An in-line array of product dispensers overlie a conveyor belt. An ink jet printer overlies the conveyor belt downstream of the product dispensers. Information identifying the product dispensers which hold the desired products for a particular set and the... | 02/27/1990 |
